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Can't get Middle Earth to fit into my TV!!

I have a HDTV, I connect my laptop to my receiver via HDMI, and then HDMI to that TV. Nothing I have tried so far enables everything to fit in the display. The XP bar is cropped out, and without moving stuff around a few other things are partially cropped out. When I switch back to my laptop screen and then back to the TV later on, I have to move stuff around again because the settings don't adhere. I tried tweaking the receiver, the game settings, the video card settings, and even added a few curse words.

Very likely your TV has a display setting (not sure what it will be called, since it probably varies by TV, the principle is called overscanning - the TV option may mention 1:1 pixel mapping or screen fit or something like that) that takes the HD signal and crops off the edges. TV manufacturers have historic reasons for this (related to old CRT technology and what was actually broadcast) but I'm not sure what the use-case is now. In any event you can probably turn it off.

Very likely your TV has a display setting (not sure what it will be called, since it probably varies by TV, the principle is called overscanning - the TV option may mention 1:1 pixel mapping or screen fit or something like that) that takes the HD signal and crops off the edges. TV manufacturers have historic reasons for this (related to old CRT technology and what was actually broadcast) but I'm not sure what the use-case is now. In any event you can probably turn it off.

If you have a flat panel TV you do not want to use the TV controls to solve this problem. There will be a setting inside the control panel of your videocard software to change the scaling oh the HDMI output.

I used to run into this problem a lot when setting up triple monitor displays, the monitor using the HDMI output always had scaling issues.

And you want to use the computer setting as opposed to the TV setting due to the fact that the videocard is better as this function than the TV.

If you have a flat panel TV you do not want to use the TV controls to solve this problem. There will be a setting inside the control panel of your videocard software to change the scaling oh the HDMI output.

I used to run into this problem a lot when setting up triple monitor displays, the monitor using the HDMI output always had scaling issues.

And you want to use the computer setting as opposed to the TV setting due to the fact that the videocard is better as this function than the TV.

OK. I will make sure the TV and receiver are set to "pass through" or something comparable to that function, and then try the scaling option on the video card again. I tried that before but it had no effect, maybe because the TV or receiver are overriding it.

And thank you Yamy for pointing out something obvious that I may have actually forgotten to check! I'll flip out if that fixes it.

And you were right! I have a P.Size button on my remote that toggles to something called SCREEN FIT. That option corrected everything! I went right past the obvious and tried everything but that. Funny.